executioner quotes

   esta   dema  s decirte que a esta altura no creo en predicadores ni en generales ni en las nalgas de miss universo ni en el arrepentimiento de los verdugos ni en el catecismo del confort ni en el flaco perdo  n de dios. It's not useless to tell you that, at this stage, I don't believe in preachers or generals or in Miss Universe's buttocks or in the executioner's repentance or in the catechism of comfort or in God's slim forgiving.

- Mario Benedetti
  Poemas de otros,'Credo' ('Creed').

But I do nothing upon my self, and yet I am mine own executioner.

-John Donne
  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.12.

Defer, defer, To the Lord High Executioner!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Chorus, The Mikado, act1.